► Last night was tough. I went to bed at midnight only to wake up at 3:00am in excruciating pain. My messed up left side Temporomandibular joint was flaring up and sending shooting pain through my jaws and teeth. Had to pop 4 ibuprofen to try to get the pain to subside and it was still hurting. I ended up not falling asleep again until after 6 ( Read more... )

► Le sigh. Things were so great yesterday, all day, evening and night. Then I had to wake up this morning, an hour after falling asleep, the pain having returned. Been a nagging aching day. Merde ( Read more... )

► Why is it I never see blankets with satin/ribbon trim anymore? When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s all the blankets my parents, grandparents and basically everyone else had had that folded zig-zag stitched ribbon trim along the ends of the blankets. I haven't see any like that in... well, I guess decades ( Read more... )

► Dad called me yesterday to suggest we go out sometime this week. I said that was fine with me as I have a bunch of Burger King coupons that came in the mail (we got 1 sheet and one of the other tenants left a sheet atop of the mail-slots, where everyone seems to dump junk mail). Although it looks like I won't because Dad asked what day " ( Read more... )

► Each day I have no idea what to expect. Wednesday I was fine. Yesterday I was doing pretty well until around 11:00pm the TMJ pain started flaring up again. Took a ibuprofen tablet and it helped a bit, not a lot but a bit. Went to sleep around 3:00am but woke up an hour later in excruciating pain. A second ibuprofen tablet helped a bit. ( Read more... )

► Pain my my jaw joint has really flared up in the past hour or so. Feeling really drained, and like I've been punched repeatedly in the side of the head. Maybe I should go back to the hospital soon...

Bleah.

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► Yeah... jaw's hurting quite a bit tonight. Feeling drained from it, but it's no where near as bad as it was when I went to the hospital 2 weeks ago. Ibuprofen pill I took seems to be helping.

Just have to be careful since I can't rely on those too often (trying to stick to 1 a day, if that).

► Had a surprise earlier in the afternoon when ( Read more... )

► Finished my anti-inflammatory prescription on Saturday. Hoping I won't need to go back to the hospital for more, although I've been getting pain coming and going in my jaw joint again. Just have to take it easy and try to avoid chewy or tough food.

► Dad and my Amazon.com order shipped last night around midnight. Coming from the US, it ( Read more... )

► The stiffness and pain in my left side TMJ (jaw joint) has been returning the past couple of days. My own fault really, I should have been taking it easy for a few weeks. Instead, I've been eating chewy granola bars, crunchy chocolates, and resting my chin against my arm at the computer, putting pressure on it. Guess I've been aggravating it ( Read more... )

► Should not have eaten that chewy granola bar this morning, or those 3 Toffee candies last night while my TMJ is inflamed. The side of my head is killing me today. Bleah.

► I've long realized I have compulsive hoarding, fed by my mild obsessive compulsive disorder and predisposition towards collecting things. For a long time I've felt bad ( Read more... )